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19 May 2013
- 14:24 UTC Wayne Hale's Blog Making a Difference When I started blogging, it was in connection with my work, at that time as a government civil servant. I tried to stay strictly on topic (space) and never ever ...
- 14:11 UTC SALT Astronomy High Resolution Spectrograph: Red Arm Lab first-light Following on from the HRS blue-arm laboratory first-light, this week also saw the red-arm achieving the same milestone. The photo below shows a red solar echellogram covering orders from n=51 ...
- 13:31 UTC The Daily Galaxy Saving Kepler! --The Mission That Changed Our View of the... The NASA mission that has changed our view of the probability of life in the Universe is in jeopardy. The Kepler has shown that planets are common throughout the Milky ...
- 13:00 UTC SPACE.com Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - May 19, 2013 What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
- 13:00 UTC AmericaSpace Launch Complex 39A for Lease? NASA has announced that Launch Complex 39A will be open to take on commercial clients. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studio CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA is moving ...
- 12:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Star Being Ripped Apart by a Supermassi... Results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant was ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the ...
- 12:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Lunar Hook Shot It’s been a while since I’ve posted a cool close-up picture of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (or LRO), and this one is too nifty not to share: ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Cassini creates the first global topographic map of Titan NASA's Cassini radar team have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. Detail of the new topography map. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/JHUAPL/Cornell/Weizmann(Sen) - Scientists from NASA's Cassini radar ...
- 11:41 UTC Galaxy Zoo Blog Observing Run: Raw Data versus Finished Product So let’s say you have a galaxy: And you know this galaxy has a growing black hole, and probably hasn’t had any significant mergers, because it has very little, if ...
- 11:39 UTC AmericaSpace A Most “Egg-cellent” Competition: Space Florida and Kenne... Third graders from Lithia Springs Elementary show off their “Lithia Lynx Lander” at the Planetary Lander Egg Drop. Photo credit: Emily Carney/AmericaSpace. DOVER, Fla — While it has been said ...
- 11:38 UTC Space Fellowship Space Capsule Returns Cosmic Rodents to Earth after Month... MOSCOW – The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite has landed in the Russian Orenburg Region near the border with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various microorganisms ...
- 10:11 UTC Space Fellowship NASA’s STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar ...
- 10:07 UTC Space Fellowship Bright Explosion on the Moon For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. "Lunar meteor showers" have turned out to ...
- 09:46 UTC AMSAT-UK UK Astronaut to fly to International Space Station in 201... Major Tim Peake, has been selected to fly on a five-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. The Guardian newspaper reports: 41-year-old Peake has been assigned a ...
- 09:34 UTC Rocketeers Innovation Centre progress The Technology Strategy Board's network of "catapult" Innovation Centres seems to be achieving commercial success:- A profit in their own country -- Professional Engineer
- 09:29 UTC Rocketeers Virgin Galactic hires two new spaceplane pilots, includin... Welcome to our two new SpaceShipTwo pilots, CJ (4x @nasa shuttle astronaut) and Sooch (U-2 pilot and more). #space twitter.com/virgingalactic… — Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) May 7, 2013 (Source: Virgin Galactic ...
- 09:23 UTC Supernova Condensat... A jolly good fellow? While I’m quite merrily building a writing career and even planning on writing a book, there is honestly no way I’m going to drop my research career without a fight. ...
- 09:23 UTC Rocketeers Interview with David Mackay Virtuoso Travel has an extended interview with David Mackay, chief test pilot of Virgin Galactic, in which he discusses his work and the flying characteristics of the VG vehicles: Now ...
- 09:19 UTC Rocketeers Apologies for the downtime... ...but real life is occupying too much of my time at the moment. Too many projects on the go at the same time. I'm aiming to catch up with the ...
- 09:03 UTC AMSAT-UK AMSAT Fox-1 Ham Radio CubeSat Announcement NASA announced on May 13, 2013 that AMSAT’s Fox-1 amateur radio spacecraft has been assigned for launch in November 2014 on the ELaNa XII mission. The expected orbit is 470 ...
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace NASA Spacecraft Counts Impacts on Red Planet NASA has used a camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to study how frequently the planet Mars is impacted by meteors. Image Credit: NASA / JPL NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...
- 08:46 UTC Cosmic Log Why sign up for a one-way Mars trip? Three applicants exp... A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 ...
- 08:00 UTC All About Space Heroes of Space: Hugh L. Dryden The unsung hero who built NASA into the world’s greatest space agency Dryden, pictured here in 1958, was hugely influential in the formation of NASA. From the early days of ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-05-18 SA: Tim SO: Siphelo Others: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- smooth, productive night with mediocre, but steady, seeing until the clouds arrived after 0300 and brought raindrops after 0430. accepted a total ...
- 04:37 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... KY IL AR TN Meteor 18MAY2013 KY IL AR TN Meteor approx.22:40 CST 18MAY2013 If you witnessed a meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this site; thank you .http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/2011/12/december-2011-meteorfireball-sighting.html Please also get the ...
- 04:19 UTC astrobites UR#6: Neutrinos and ICM Magnetic Fields The undergraduate research series has been revived! This month's post features research on neutrinos from failed supernovae and compact-object mergers, as well as research on magnetic fields in the intracluster ...
- 04:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... How NASA Might Revive Kepler Scott Hubbard helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. Here he explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Requiem for Many of the Rodents on Bion-M1 All of the gerbils and half the mice reportedly did not survive their spaceflight aboard Russia's Bion-M1 capsule, which returned to Earth last night after a month in space.. Anatoly ...
- 04:00 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Space Policy Events for the Week of May 20-24, 2013 The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session this week. During the Week Among the highlights of the ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Two Niles Meet The main tributaries of the worldâ€™s longest river meet in Khartoum, Sudan.
- 03:39 UTC Tychogirl Never Seen What was your role on that summer night when the blanket on the lawn was drenched to the last thread in honeysuckle and we looked up at a full moon ...
- 03:23 UTC Lights in the Sky The "HUM" Heard in McAllen, Texas I received another email today, this one from a student in McAllen, Texas, who has been affected by the Hum. What is this sound that is bothering people in so ...
- 01:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Rolling record While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited the moon for three days in December 1972, they drove the lunar rover 22.2 statute miles (35.7 kilometers). That was ...
- 00:55 UTC Parabolic Arc Some More Photos From Maker Faire 2013 Above, Eric Dahlstrom (in hat) watches two children control lunar rovers at the X Prize booth. There were many forms of getting around the Maker Faire, including this pedal powered ...
- 00:43 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Mars rover Opportunity breaks US distance record set by A... A robotic Mars rover rolled past a record set by the last men to drive on the moon more than 40 years ago. NASA's Opportunity six-wheeled Mars Exploration Rover drove ...
- 00:16 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... MBIQ Detects Possible Meteorite Fall in La Paz, Boliva 18... MBIQ Detects Possible Meteorite Fall in La Paz, Boliva 18MAY2013 Anyone who saw this possible meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this website; thank you. http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/2011/12/december-2011-meteorfireball-sighting.html update- ...
- 00:16 UTC Spaceports British Astronaut Assigned 2015 ISS Stay Britain's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake, 41, has been selected to fly on a five-month mission on the International Space Station in 2015, it is believed. The go-ahead for ...
- 00:00 UTC Sky Caramba Three planets meet up and a first of a kind eclipse ¡SkyCaramba! Astronomy blog for the week ending May 25, 2013 Three planets meet up In the next few nights, three planets that haven’t met up in two years are coming ...
- 00:00 UTC MessageToEagle.com Violent Days On The Sun Continue - Now CME Traveling At S... Violent days on the Sun continue - on 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed CME that can send billions of tons of solar ...
18 May 2013
- 23:17 UTC Castaway on Stargaz... International Astronomy Show Friday 17th May by Richard B... International astronomy show Friday 17th May 2013Been looking forward to this show for ages and ages, got my ticket on line and printed out.The day arrived at last and off ...
- 22:32 UTC Cosmic Log Storming sun sets the skies aglow A slight solar storm ejected from a powerful sunspot sparked northern lights as far south as Colorado on Friday night — and there should be more to come. The heightened ...
- 21:13 UTC Parabolic Arc Greetings from Maker Faire 2013! Greetings from Maker Faire Bay Area 2013, coming to you LIVE from San Mateo, Calif. It’s the biggest maker faire in the world here. Lots of cool things going on ...
- 20:55 UTC The Original Rocket... May-June 2013 Sport Rocketry Article: SCT-1 May-June 2013 Sport Rocketry Article, a photo by p_c_alway on Flickr.
- 20:33 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 19MAY2013 Giant ice meteor slams to Earth near kids playing in Tennessee ...May 14, 2013 – GRAY, TN (WJHL) - A Tri-Cities man has video of what appears to be a ...
- 20:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: Apollo anniversary On this day (AEST) in 1969 NASA launched the Apollo 10 mission towards the Moon. Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young spent two and a half days circling ...
- 19:49 UTC Pillow Astronaut ROADTWIP! I'm on the road again, and it sure feels great to be free and running! Today I'll be exploring Wifi at the many Starbucks Cafes along California's Interstate-5 and Interstate-40. ...
- 18:17 UTC NASA Hack Space Project Morpheus: Hard Lessons and Lean Engineering Kerry Ellis: Future human space exploration will mean getting beyond low-Earth orbit--and returning safely. Several projects across NASA are working on the challenges that goal presents, among them propulsion alternatives ...
- 18:14 UTC NASA Hack Space Collaborative Planning for IceBridge Science George Hale: Success in science often relies as much on planning, communication, and constant improvement as it does on gathering data, writing papers, and giving lectures. This is especially true ...
- 17:22 UTC Universe Today Opportunity Mars Rover Blazes Past 40 Year Old Space Driv... Now more than 9 years and counting into her planned mere 90 day mission to Mars, NASA’s legendary Opportunity rover has smashed past another space milestone and established a new ...
- 17:13 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com From Atlas V to Falcon XX – Commercial suitors wanted for... The mothballed Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) began looking towards the future on Friday, after NASA issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) from the commercial sector. A ...